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From: Andrew Szymkowiak <andrew.szymkowiak@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: when does boot say "panic cannot mount root"
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:44:19 -0400
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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When I boot a newly installed version of 2.2-961014-SNAP,
it gets fairly far along, through all the device probes, and
then says "panic: cannot mount root". Any ideas as to under
what conditions this message is produced?
There is one unusual aspect to my configuration; I am installing
and booting from wd1. I imagine that the rest of the world
is using wd0. For complicated reasons, I am not able to move
this IDE drive from slave to master, so I cannot try it as wd0.
Thanks,
Andy S.